Failover Clustering Networking Basics and Fundamentals
My name is John Marlin and I am with the High Availability and Storage Team here and today I want to talk about Failover Clustering and Networking. Networking is a fundamental key with Failover Clustering that sometimes is overlooked but ... continue reading
Disaster Recovery in the next version of Azure Stack HCI
Disaster can hit at any time. When thinking about disaster and recovery, I think of 3 things Be prepared Plan on not involving humans Automatic, not automated Having a good strategy is a must. You want to be able to ... continue reading
Windows Server 2019 Failover Clustering New Features
Greeting Failover Cluster fans!! John Marlin here and I own the Failover Clustering feature within the Microsoft product team. In this blog, I will be giving an overview and demo a lot of the new features in Windows Server 2019 ... continue reading
Disaster Recovery with Azure Stack HCI in next version Windows Server LTSC
Disaster can hit at any time. When thinking about disaster and recovery, I think of 3 things Be prepared Plan on not involving humans Automatic, not automated Having a good strategy is a must. You want to be able to ... continue reading
Talking Failover Clustering and Azure Stack HCI Ignite 2019 Announcements
Microsoft Ignite 2019 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida was a huge success with approximately 26,000 in attendance. We had a great time meeting and talking with our partners and customers. We also had a few announcements ... continue reading
Site-aware Failover Clusters in Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2016, debuts the birth of site-aware clusters. Nodes in stretched clusters can now be grouped based on their physical location (site). Cluster site-awareness enhances key operations during the cluster lifecycle such as failover behavior, placement policies, heartbeating between ... continue reading
List of Failover Cluster Events in Windows 2016/2019
Let me tell you of a story of myself and one of my asks while I was still in support. We always thought the it would be nice to have a listing of all Failover Clustering events for references. Our ... continue reading
Virtual Machine Compute Resiliency in Windows Server 2016
In today’s cloud scale environments, commonly comprising of commodity hardware, transient failures have become more common than hard failures. In these circumstances, reacting aggressively to handle these transient failures can cause more downtime than it prevents. Windows Server 2016, therefore ... continue reading
Optimizing Hyper-V Live Migrations on an Hyperconverged Infrastructure
We have been doing some extensive testing in how to best configure Hyper-V live migration to achieve the best performance and highest level of availability. Recommendations: Configure Live Migration to use SMB. This must be performed on all nodes [crayon-60066f0c00245964436252/] ... continue reading
Understanding the Repair Active Directory Object Recovery Action
First published on MSDN on Dec 13, 2013 One of the responsibilities of cluster Network Name resource is to rotate the password of the computer object in Active Directory associated with it. When the Network Name resource is online, it ... continue reading